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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

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Reb L Limerick

Artist & High School Teacher
Los Angeles

Hi I'm Reb (she and they)
high school video art teacher (Mx. Limerick) in a queer relationship w/ technology & ecology
performance artist vocalizing with bodies of water in Los Angeles ... living on Tongva land
dancing around my living room embodying speculative fiction & internal friction
big friendship with mom and mama earth
seeking community and connection
2nd time @ AMC

@wurldwidereb

10:00am EDT

Healing Justice Resource Space STUDENT CENTER: Room 010Violeta Donawa • Chiara Galimberti • Adela Nieves

2:00pm EDT

Tour to Dabls MBAD African Bead Museum SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + Kirby

7:00pm EDT

Past, Present, Futurism: Resilient Infrastructure Community Arts AuditoriumJenny Lee • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Monica Lewis-Patrick • Diana Nucera • Maya Wiley

8:00pm EDT

Welcome to AMC2018! A FireHouse Music Series Celebration Detroit Institute of Arts (North Lawn)Monica Blaire • Detroit Che • One Freq • DJ Bleak G • DJ Stacye J • Trey P.

10:00pm EDT

Dream Cafe Kick-off Party with djs Whodat + LadyMonix Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Terri “Whodat” McQueen • Lady Monix

9:00am EDT

Stories Become Movements, Become Stories: Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence Community Arts AuditoriumEmi Kane • The Free Siwatu Coalition • Tatyana Fazlalizadeh • Emi Koyama • Amita Swadhin

11:00am EDT

Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Repetition Is Sacred: Group Poetry as Ceremony for Change STATE HALL: Room 134Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyJamon Jordan From Growing Economy to Growing Our Soul – East Side Detroit Tour. SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRichard Feldman

12:45pm EDT

Decolonize your Bod-tany with Queer Ecology STATE HALL: Room 116Moretta Browne • Edgar Flores Digital Data Detox STATE HALL: Room 118Karolle Rabarison

2:00pm EDT

Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Detroit Sound Conservancy Music Tour SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyCarleton Gholz • Jonah Raduns-Silverstein • Adriel Thorton

4:00pm EDT

De-mechanize Design: This is not a Poster STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Katie Diamond • Liz Morgan Artivism: Radical Art for Rapid Response Change STATE HALL: Room 135Sabiha Basrai • Free Egunfemi • Biana Nozaki-Nasser • Nijeul Porter

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

8:00pm EDT

GET TO WERK The Marble BarTT the Artist • Stacye J and the Anthology of Booty • Miz Korona

9:00am EDT

Shaping Data, Shaping Power Community Arts AuditoriumSasha Costanza-Chock • Tawana Petty (she/her) • Ruha Benjamin • Mona Chalabi • Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler

11:00am EDT

Fire: A Transformation Oracle STATE HALL: Room 128Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) Healing Uses of Plant Technology STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Karen L. Culpepper • Richael Faithful • Miriam Zoila Pérez Act Out to Tear Down: Disrupt with Theatre of the Oppressed MCGREGOR: Room JRaven Stubbs • Chahney Young Indigenous Storytelling: Resisting Co2lonialism STATE HALL: Room 125S (she/her) • Eriel Deranger Sex Work in the Digital Age: Navigating Consent MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HZoe Trope From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Soul – East Side Detroit Tour. SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRichard Feldman Networks of the Equitable Internet Initiative Tour SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyJanice Gates • Diana Nucera

12:45pm EDT

Why and How to Work with Your Local Indie Movie Theater STATE HALL: Room 125Paula Guthat

2:00pm EDT

Shifting Power with Participatory Video STATE HALL: Room 106Monica Curca • Rhanda Dormeus • Thor Morales • Theresa Smith • Lauri Valdez Animation for Social Change STATE HALL: Room 118Carrie Hawks • Consuela Lopez Divestin' from Capitalism, Using TimeBanks STATE HALL: Room 115Alice Bagley • Johanna James • Krystle Okafor • LaTierra Piphus • Jane Slaughter Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction MCGREGOR: Room Bamp • Deep Center&amp • Dare Dukes • s Youth Leadership Team Subversive Design: Exploring Power in Design Practice STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Julia Kong • Brooke Staton Who "They" Is: Humanizing the Built Environment STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BAlexandria Barnes • Bradley Cooper • Jasmine Humphries • Madison Schillig "How to Survive the End of the World" Live Podcast STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • adrienne maree brown • Zak Rosen The Art of Interviewing STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DKeisha TK Dutes Mawadisidiwag: They Visit Each Other SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyThe Aadizookaan

4:00pm EDT

When It All Changed: A Transformative Media Experience MCGREGOR: Room CJohn Sloan III • Sultan Sharrief Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown Sailing for Social justice STATE HALL: Room 115Tala Khanmalek • Audrey Kuo The Big Idea: Taking Film Ideas from Impulse to Action MCGREGOR: Room BAndrea Claire Morningstar • Jasmine Rivera Fringe Issue: Sex Work & Night Life Organizing STATE HALL: Room 106Lyn Archer Dismantling Gender in Youth Spaces STATE HALL: Room 113Johanna Burgos • Nana Minder

5:30pm EDT

Kit an Kin at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

6:00pm EDT

Our Radically Sober Futures STATE HALL: Room 118Sicily McRaven

7:00pm EDT

Black Music The Baltimore GalleryDeon Jamar • Nicole Misha

8:00pm EDT

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION MOCADBeige • K-HAND • Le1f • Oshun • Vespre • Miz Korona and the Korona Effect • Stacey HOTTWAXX Hale • Los Hermanos • DJ Pia

9:00am EDT

How Theatre Helps Us Share What We Know STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry EElon Sloan

10:00am EDT

Hacking Capitalism: Divest, Manage Debt, and Ethical Money STATE HALL: Room 123Hadassah Damien Empower Our Social Justice Projects Using the Co-op Model STATE HALL: Room 135Sabiha Basrai • ana martina • Jenna Peters-Golden • Manju Rajendran • Sarah Reilly Food Stories Unwrapped: Decolonizing the White Gaze of Food Media STATE HALL: Room 113Serena Maria Daniels • Dorothy Hernandez • Sabiha Khan • Sarahlynn Pablo • Natalia Roxas Invasive Papermaking for Everyone MCGREGOR: Room JMeg Heeres An Introduction to Pleasure Activism Community Arts Auditoriumadrienne maree brown Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony + KirbyJamon Jordan

1:00pm EDT

Gabby Smashes: A Conversation about Race & Social Justice STATE HALL: Room 125Luann Algoso SARAP - FilipinX Drag Horror Cooking Show STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BKhary Mathurin • Patrick Salvani First Response for Gunshots and Asthma STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Martine Caverl • Ana Lily Mccullom • Amika Tendaji Practical Magic: Lunar Ritual for Manifestation MCGREGOR: Room CCarmen Mayes Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba

3:00pm EDT

Performing New Worlds Plenary and Closing Ceremony Celebration Community Arts AuditoriumUna Aya Osato • Ricardo Gamboa • Xandra Ibarra • Francesca Fiorentini

4:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium

8:00pm EDT

Allied Ever After Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Beige • Nandi • Mike Medow